![]() ![]() La planète des singes ( 1963 trans Xan Fielding as Planet of the Apes 1963 vt Monkey Planet 1964) is a witty, philosophical tale à la Voltaire, full of irony and compassion, quite unlike the later film adaptation, Planet of the Apes ( 1968), which used only the book's initial premise and lost its Satirical point, which is most effectively conveyed when the astronaut protagonists of the tale, who reminisce about the events portrayed, turn out themselves to be apes, in a reversal of the implications of the usual Apes as Human narrative. ![]() Boulle uses moral fable to pinpoint human absurdities, and his relatively large body of work in the sf genre is a good illustration of this method. His experience of the Orient permeated much of his early work, which was generally not sf Le pont sur la rivière Kwaï ( 1952 trans Xan Fielding as The Bridge on the River Kwai 1954) remains his best-known novel. (1912-1994) French author who trained as an electrical engineer and spent eight years in Malaysia as a planter and soldier. ![]()
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